The comments on that article are odd (and horrible, of course). It's like they say 'you get called a racist if you talk about this!!!!!' and then say 'there's one reason they all left, but we can't talk about it!!!!'... which sounds as though they suggest everyone leaving actually has a problem with foreigners, or that only foreigners commit crimes. Which has racist implications, obviously. The discussion about immigration in this country is shit partly because a lot of people argue like fucking retards.

Even ignoring the batshit/terminally furious, London is a special case really - it's a global city. It's also an interesting article - looking at the economics of it all. There's no doubt been a flattening of 'native' White working class culture in London, and that's a thing to be considered like any other cultural/historical trend. But it's also not something to mourn unreservedly, myopically, hypocritically et al, with the evil foreigner as the only cause.

some twat on another site wrote:
"To be honest the situation both in London and the UK overall parrells the native american indians - look what happened to them."

What? There've been London death marches and the British are being forced to live on reservations?

Don't ask for clarity from people commenting on BBC articles. They are the longest suffering people in history, put upon by the evil forces of the BBC, the Establishment (of any colour/side) and probably 'PC Brigades' of various kinds.

White Londoners that are only capable of low paid jobs will not accept the wages in London as the living costs are too high. White British people tend to be more concerned with their accommodations comfort and not access to amenities.

As for high paid jobs all nationalities competed equally until the Tories imposed limits. Their policies are likely to bring numbers of white people back up slightly.

The article is about "British white" also, that mystifying ideal that xenophobes wilfully band around. The actual numbers of white population are way above 40% when you factor in the French, German, Polish, Slovak, Russian....